Card holder



c, T. GoEwEY Oct. 21

CARD HOLDER File@ March 1, 12324' WITNEssEs ATTORNEYS `Patented Oct. 2l,i924. p

UNIT ST-TES CHARLES fr. GOEWEY; or sontlirBnn-n, rNnIANAi.

CARD HOLDER;

Application ledl March 1, 1924. Seria-1 110.696,2'29.

To all whom t magno/noemt.'

' Be it known 4that I, CHARLES T. GronwEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCard Holders-,of which the followingis a speciiication.

The invention is an improvement in holders for use in holding labels,address cards and the like in place ponga shipping container so th-atthelatter may be sent by mail orin any other suitable maner.

More specifically-the present invention is an improvement over thatwhich is disclosed in my prior application for Letters Patent oftheUnited States, Serial #664,568, filed September 24:, 1923, in which Idisclose a holdingframe adapted. to be secured to a sui-t case or like,article in such maner that one ror .more compartments are definedbetween the holding frame and the suit case or like article,eachrcompartment being adapted for the receptionl of. a card and being`open at one end, the holding frame being provided at the normally openendof each com art-- ment with an inwardly extending fixe' retainingmember i'or engaging' with the outer each card receiving compartment asimple,

reliablel and novel means for engaging with the adj acent-end of the.card"v in the compartment to hold. the card. againstaccidental-dis#placement f-rom the compartment, said card retaining means being adaptedto b e adjust- 4ed quickly and easily tohold the card -in place in .thecomparstment',or to permitthe Y withdrawal of the card? from theycompart-` ment, vlas desired.-

A fur-therobject-o the invention isftopro- Yvide in a card holder yofthe character' dea compartmentof which va portion of the holderconstitutes the front wall but also in j drawings, in ,whichf holds thecard Haftwise against the front of the compartment.

Other objects andadvantages willibe ap- Y parent from thefollowingg;description.,` .confsidere'd 1n conjunctierwith the:accompanyigure l is a perspective View card holder embodying thepresentinvent-ibn applied to a shipping container, i l j Figure 2 is arelatively enlarged fragmentary perspective view of the con-tainei?Vwith the' holder thereon, showing a flexible .card

retaining member at one end of the holder partly withdrawnfrom the cardretaining pesi/tion, i i f.

Figure 3 isa section along-fthe line 33l of Fignrexl, A j

Figure e is 4afragmentary :side elevatinn showing amediied tormaof. acardholder embodied in the. inventioninapplied pesi?- tion'on theshipping,r contain-en Referring now -to the drawings, the-'nmi eral ldesignatesa container which-may be of any suitable known type'oconstruction.-

adapted to be shipped.` through the mails-or otherwise. t i v n A holderembodyingthepresent invention comprises a substantially rectangularstrip Q made of any relatively stiff suitable material, suchk as bristolboard, leather or 'the 'snowing a like.v The strip -2fis Ysecu-red-tothe container l by rows -oifstitclring- B'which extend along- Y thelongitudinal `edges of the strip and by 1 respectivelyv are definedbetween 'the' stripl 2 andi the a'fdjacent -wall ot the container La:

f With thisgarrangelnpent, two', similar compartments@ or pockets 5Iand; 6?.

each of these,compartments.ora pocketsheing ,closed latv itsvs-i'de'sandi at its :iv-nner ,end'fandi being open a't-vitsf outer.' end,whereby .a-fcard 7 may be inserted therein fromA the" outeren-d.thereo-f ,The front' wallof eachlofthey compartments or pockets' `5and isldeined by :an endepo'rtio'n vv of the'stripQ andjisfprovided witha window 8 ot''-relativlfely-1'gareatv lare'a for the purpose Iof'disclosing View -themajor portion of the card` which;v `is? dis'posedwit-hinthe com-partme'nt-.A The*windowA 1 transparent material,Isuch as 'ism-'glassA l n, is desirable that are @are waren-thecompartment 5 or '6 shall beheld against accidental displacement fromthis compartretaining strip 9 will be compressed slightly ment and alsothat the card shall be held close against the strip 2 so that writtenmatter or other matter on the card will be clearly visible on casualinspection. It alsois desirable that the means for retaining the card inthe compartment 5 or 6 shall be adapted to be manipulated quickly andeasily to permit the removal of the card from the compartment whendesired and the replacement of the card in the compartment. To theseends the present invention contem plates the provision of a cardretaining member in the form of a substantially rectangular strip 9 ofpliable material, such as fabric.v A retaining strip 9 is provided foreach compartment and is of less width and length than the width andlength of the compartment.

In the arrangement illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3, the strips 9 haveend portions secured against the inner faces of opposite end portions ofthestrip 2 by rows of stitching l0 which extend transversely of thefront walls of the compartments and of the retaining strip 9 adjacent tothe open ends of the compartments. Each strip 9 may be extended so thatthe major portion thereof protrudes from one of the compartments 5 or 6as shown -atthe right hand side of Figure 3 to permit the insertion of acard in the compartment Vor the free-end portion ofthe strip 9'may befolded inwardly over the outer end of the card in the compartlment withwhich the strip9 is associated until the inwardly folded portion of theretaining strip 9 is disposed flatwise between the inner face of thecard in the compartment andthe container l and thus serves not only tohold the card against displacement from the compartment but holds thecard close to the portion of the strip 2 that constitutes the front wallof the compartment. Preferably, each ofthe cards 7 is cut away at` itsouter end, as at l1, the cut away portion ll being slightly less inwidth than the pliable retaining strip 9 and being positionedinfcentered relation in respect to the side edges o-f the card so thatthe pliable inl a direction transverse-of its length when the pliablestrip is folded inwardlyr across thecbottom wall of the'- cut awayportion y l1 `at the outer end of the card'. The e-nh Laissez in thecompartment defines portions of the card at opposite sides of the cutaway portion, as at l2, extending outwardly in the compartment beyondthe pliable member 9 and thus being adaptedto be grasped conve-nie-ntlywhen itis desired to withdraw the card from the compartment. The cardretaining strips 9 will be completely hidden from view whenin cardretaining position.

With the arrangement illustrated in Figure t, an end portion of thepliable strip 9 is secured to an end portion of the holding strip 2 andagainst the outer -face of the latter by a row of stitching 13 which eX-tends transversely of the pliable strip 9. lThe pliable strip 9 thus isadapted to have the free end portion thereof folded inwardly across theadjacent end of the holding strip 2 into the compartment with which thepliable strip 9 is associated, the inwardly turned or folded portion ofthe pliable strip 9 being disposed between the inner face of a card 11iin the compartment and the container l.

VFrom the foregoing description of the various parts of the device, theoperation thereof may be readily understood. One of the cards held inplace by the holder in the manne-r described may serve as an addresscard while the other card may have stamps placed thereon so that thecontainer may be sent through the mail. These stamps may be replacedafter each shipment by new cards or the same cards may be used severaltimes and replaced by new cards when required. lt will be obvious that aholder embodying the invention may hold only one card against thecontainer if desired and that this card may have stamps placed thereonand also may serve as an address card.

Obviously, my invention is susceptible of embodiment in formsg otherthan those illustrated in the accompanying drawings and I therefore'consider as my own all such modifications and adaptations of the formsof the device herein described as fairly fall within the scope of theappended claims.

VI claim y1.. As a new article of manufacture, a substantiallyrectangular holding strip adapted to Abe secured at'the longitudinaledges and at one one end edge to a wall ofy a shipping container or likesupport, whereby a pocket 'will be -dened between said holding strip andthe supporting wall for the reception of a card, and a flexible stripattached to the holding strip at the second end of the latter and beingfoldable into the pocket against the inner face of the'card in thelatter..Y

2. As a new article of manufacture, a substantially rectangular holdingstrip made of relatively thinv material and being adapted to be securedalong the Vlongitudinal edges thereof and intermediate the ends thereofto a wall of a shipping container or like support whereby two pocketswill be defined between the holding strip and the wall of the support,each of said pockets being open at an end of said holding strip, andflexible retaining strips secured to the ends of said holding strip andeach having a free end portion insertable inthe adjacent pocket, as andfor the purpose described.

8. As a new article of manufacture, a substantially rectangular holdingstrip made 0f relatively thin material and being adapted to be securedalong the longitudinal edges thereof and intermediate the ends thereofto a wall of a shipping container or like support whereby two pocketswill be defined between the holding strip and the wall of the support,each of said pockets being open at an end of said holdingstrip, andflexible retaining strips secured to the ends of said holding strip andeach having a free end portion insertable in the adjacent pocket, saidholding strip being provided with a window for each pocket. Y

4. As a new article of manufacture, a holding strip adapted to besecured to the wall of a shipping container or like support in suchmanner as to coact with the wall of the support to provide a pocket openat one end, a portion of the holding strip constituting the front wallof the pocket, said front wall of the pocket having a window therein,and a flexible retaining strip attached at one end to said holding stripat the open end of the pocket, said retaining strip being of less widththan said pocket and having a free end portion insertable in the pocketto retain the card in the pocket.

As a new article of manufacture, a holding strip adapted to be securedto the wall of a shipping container or like support in such manner astocoact with the wall of the support to provide a pocket open at oneend, a portion of the holding strip constituting the front wall of thepocket, said front wall of the pocket having a window therein,

and a flexible retaining strip having the end portions thereof securedagainst the inner face 4of said holding strip at the open end of thepocket, said flexible retaining vstrip being foldable to position theother end thereof in said pocket. c

6. As a new article of manufacture7 a holding strip adapted to besecured to the Wall of a shipping container or like support in suchmanner as to coact with the wall of the support to -provide a` pocketopen at one end, a portion of the holding strip iconstituting the ifrontwall ofi` the pocket, said front wall of the pocket having a windowtherein, a flexible retaining strip 7. As a new article of manufacture,av

holding strip adapted to be securedto .the wall of a shipping containeror like support in such manner as to coact with the wall of the supportto provide a pocket open atone end, a portion of the holding stripconsti-V tuting vthe front wall of the pocket, said front wall of thepocket having a window therein, and a flexible retaining strip having anend portion thereof secured against the outer face of an end portion ofsaid holding strip and having the free end portion foldable toward theend of said holding strip intov the space between'the holding strip andsaid supporting wall.

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